Chapter 1228 - Underground (1/2)

“Hello everyone, I’m the host of this gathering. I believe everyone knows me, I’m one of the assistant deans, Zeith. I’ll first lead you to check on the item we are researching this time.”

Zeith didn’t say much, he was very familiar with this kind of thing. Most of the mages greeted him as it clearly wasn’t the first time they met him.

Zeith turned to enter the mage tower, with the group of Artisans following behind him.

Raphael and Lin Yun were walking at the rear and Raphael was using mana to give some explanations to Lin Yun.

“Sir Mafa, Sir Zeith didn’t rely on alchemy to get his position at the Starry Sky College. The Starry Sky College’s three deans almost never manage the matters of the Starry Sky College.

“The ones supervising the Starry Sky College’s matters are those few assistant deans. Zeith is a very powerful 5th Rank Heaven Mage and is said to have awakened a Frozen Domain.

“Last year, there had been a problem in one of the planes controlled by the Starry Sky College, a powerful Heaven Rank Magic Beast emerged. Zeith ended up going and took a few minutes to freeze that Heaven Magic Beast into an ice statue. Now, the statue is still in that plane, intimidating other magic beasts.

“If you meet Sir Zeith in the Starry Sky College, do not resist. Especially if you violated a rule. Sir Zeith might appear polite, but he is ruthless when fighting. Any problem that appears would be turned into an ice statue so that he could focus on other problems…”

Raphael said a few sentences before stopping. He didn’t dare to use mana sound transmissions within the mage tower. This was Zeith’s mage tower, it was just like a mage’s Demiplane, it was under complete control of the mage. With Raphael’s strength, he might end up being heard by him.

After they entered the mage tower, they surprisingly didn’t go up, they went toward a certain location on the first floor and moved underground.

There were two magic beast-shaped puppets defending the entrance, and as everyone appeared, the two puppets opened their eyes and their crystal eyes flickered with radiance, seemingly confirming everyone’s identity.

After going through that entrance covered in a layer of light, they arrived on a huge platform. They could see a bottomless abyss on the sides of the platform and a passage leading underground. Shining crystals were embedded on both sides of the passage, but they still couldn’t see how deep the passage was.

As everyone stepped on that hundred-meter-big platform, Zeith walked to the center, took out his own special imprint and put it on a crystal table on the side.

At that moment, numerous alchemy equations and runes appeared on the inside and the surface of the crystal table. A barrier covered the entire platform, and then the entire platform started following the tracks of the passage into the depths of the abyss.

The shining crystals were rapidly flashing past up until they merged into two straight lines as the platform reached maximum velocity.

But the group standing on the platform didn’t feel any vibration. They also didn’t react to the sudden acceleration.

Shock flashed in Lin Yun’s eyes. He hadn’t seen much advanced alchemy technology before coming to the Starry Sky College, but he just saw something that would be widely spread in the future.

Reverse Gravity Array, Spatial Enchantment Array… The latter especially, Lin Yun never heard of it in this era.

The Reverse Gravity Array already existed in this era, Sky City’s floating fortresses all had that kind of array on board. It’s just that this array had a huge restriction.

Sky City’s floating fortresses were very slow. The main reason was that the Floating Array would collapse if the speed was too fast.

The Floating Array was a lower grade version of the Reverse Gravity Array. Only its advanced form could be considered a true Reverse Gravity Array.

The Floating Array was using the power of the array to support something, but the Reverse Gravity Array was actually using the gravity coming from the earth itself to remove fall or alter gravity.

The Floating Array couldn’t support things that were too heavy or too fast. It had many restrictions. But the Reverse Gravity Array didn’t have these kinds of restrictions. It seemed impossible for the huge Sky City’s main city to be supported by a Floating Array, it should be supported by a Reverse Gravity Array.

Because a Floating Array would never be able to support it.

As for the Spatial Enchantment Array, it never publicly appeared in this era. Just like Raphael’s flying shuttle he remodelled before, the biggest restriction was a sudden acceleration. That would create such powerful pressure and Archmages might not be able to support that pressure.

But when flying, if the speed was too fast and some obstruction appeared on the path, they would have no method to stop or dodge rapidly. Even if it was shut down, the flying shuttle would still be rushing over at its original speed.

But this problem would no longer appear with the Spatial Enchantment Array. No matter what happened to the platform below their feet, no one would be able to feel the pressure since the space itself was moving, they also wouldn’t be able to feel any pressure from the outside.

If there was no such array, at least half of the people would have been thrown out due to the sudden acceleration.

And if there was no Spatial Enchantment Array, they would need a very long distance to slow down from such a high speed, this would also increase the pressure. The people on the platform would suffer from at least several dozen times the gravity.

Mages that had yet to reach the Heaven Rank would end up crushed alive from the pressure.

After a minute, the two trails of light slowly disappeared and the platform appeared at the entrance of a huge underground square, instantly switching from rapid movement to stillness.

But the people standing on the platform didn’t feel any pressure, they didn’t even feel like they had moved at all.

However, Lin Yun knew that even if that passage was a slope, they were three kilometers underground!

And this was due to the array on the platform. In the future, the first weaponized magic battleships that left Noscent to conquer the endless planes all had these two arrays, even the smallest ones.

It was impossible to only have Heaven Mages conquering planes, most of the times those under the Heaven Rank would be the ones conquering planes, and speed was usually the biggest constraint.

If there was a problem, they might take a month to arrive and the conquest would be impossible to complete. With these two arrays, the magic battleships’ speed was no longer an issue and they only had to consider the magic battleships’ power.

As long as the magic battleships had enough power, they would be able to keep on accelerating.

The other Artisans apparently didn’t notice this platform’s arrays, or if they noticed, they didn’t know what that represented.

Their sight was locked onto the huge underground square.

The domed sky and ground were just like a silver mirror fully made of metal. There wasn’t a single crack, it looked like a whole.

There were all kinds of puppets and machinery spread about with various alchemists moving in a hurry. But even though they were in a hurry, it didn’t feel chaotic. Everything was methodically arranged.